Professor

Kilnam Chon

Birthday: 1943. 1. 3
E-mail: chon at cosmos.kaist.ac.kr chonkn at gmail.com

Current Address:
Keio University
Fujisawa, Kanagawa 252-8520, Japan

+81-466-49-3637

KAIST
Yuseong, Daejeon,305-701, Korea

+82-42-869-3514
+82-19-525-3514

Education

Ph.D in Computer Science, UCLA, September 1974
M.S. in Computer Science, UCLA, December 1967
B.S. in Engineering Science, Osaka University, March 1965

Employment

Professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University, 2008~Present
Visiting Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 2008
Professor Emeritus, Computer Science Dept, KAIST, 2008~Present
Professor, Computer Science Department, KAIST, 1982-2008
(Department Chair from 1985-1987)
(Computer Center Director 1988-1990)
Principal Investigator, ETRI(formerly KIET) 1979-1982
Member of Technical Staff, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1976-1980
California Institute of Technology, 1976-1980
Postgraduate Research Associate, UCLA, 1971-1974
System Engineer, Rockwell International(formerly Collins Radio), 1969-1971

Research Interests

Internet
System Engineering
Human Computer Interaction

Award

World Technology Award - Communication Technology, 2003
Presidential Award - Information Technology, 1998(Korea)
Scientist of the Year, 1997(Korea)
Presidential Award - Mountain Climbing, 1980(Korea)

Memebership

Fellow of Institute of Electrical Engineers, 2000
Fellow of World Technology Forum, 2003
Hornary Member of World Innovation Foundation, 2005

External Activities

Founding Steering Group Chair, Asia Future Internet Forum, 2008~Present
Board Member, Information Retrieval Facility, 2006-Present
APRICOT Advisory Committee Member, 2001~Present
Advisory Board Member, Communications of ACM,1996-Present
Presidential Advisory Panel, Asia Institute of Technology, 2003-2006
Governor, International Council of Computer Communication, 1995-2005
Founding Chair, Asia Pacific Advanced Network, 1997-2004
Editorial Board Member, British Computer Society, 1994-2002
Co-Chair, Coordinating Committee on Intercontinental Research Networking, 1993-2001
Founding Chair, Asia Pacific Top Level Domain COnsortium, 1999-2001
Founding Chair, AP* Retreat, 1996
Program Chair, INET, 1995
Founding Chair, KRNET, 1993-1999
Founding Chair, Asia Pacific Networking Group, 1991-1995
Founding Chair, HCI Conference, 1993-1994
Founding Chair, Asia Pacific Networking Group, 1991-1995
Founding Chair, Joint Workshop on Computer Communications, 1986
Program Chair, Pacific Computer Communication Symposium, 1985

Publications

Here are some presentation materials and papers done recently. If you want, you can download the file by clicking the title. File formats are either PPT or PDF.

Kilnam Chon, et al, "The origin and early development of the Internet and of the netizen," in W. Shrum, et al(Editor), Past, present, and future of research in the information society, Springer, Spring 2007, pp.47~62.

Kilnam Chon, et al, "ISPSG: Internet Service Provider-Separated Geographic-Based Addressing and Routing," Future Net II, Glocom, 2009.

Yusung Kim, Kilnam Chon, and Lisong Xu, "Adjusting the Aggregate Throughput of Parallel TCP Flows without Central Coordination," IEICE Transactions, May 2008.

Yusung Kim, Lisong Xu, and Kilnam Chon, "G-tcp to govern aggregate throughput of parallel TCP flows," IEEE INFOCOM 2007 POSTER, May 2007.

Joonbok Lee and Kilnam Chon, "Network-aware Overlay Multicast for Large Data Dissemination" , IEICE Transaction on Communications , Vol.E92-B,No.05,pp.-,May. 2009.

Kilnam Chon, "Future Internet and The Other Billions - Research Opportunity," Proceedings of SAINT 2008, IEEE Press, 2008.

"Past, Present & Future of Research in the Information Society", Springer Science+Business Media LLC, NY 2007.

"A Brief History of the Internet in Korea ", 2005.

"Bio-Mirror project for public bio-data distribution ", Bioinfomatics, 2004.

"The Future of the Internet Digital Divide", Communications of the ACM, Vol.44, No.3, March 2001.

"NLM : network-based layered multicast for traffic control of heterogeneous network", Computer Communications, Vol.24, 2001.

"Proactive web caching with cnmulative prefetching for large multimedia data",Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, Vol.33, 2000.

"Scalable Traffic Control Scheme for Interactive Multimedia Sessions", IEICE Transactions on Communications, Vol .E82-B, No.5, May 1999.

"Testing Methods for SDL Systems", Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, Vol.28, No.12, June 1996.

"Hierarchical Session Management for Large Scale Sessions"Journal of Electrical Engineering and Information Science, Vol.3, No.5, October 1998.

"Internet Inroads," Communications of ACM, Vol.39, No.6,June 1996.

"Necessity of Advanced Network covering Asia Pacific Area", BIT - Numerical Mathematics,Vol.28, No.12, December 1996.

"Partial ASN.1/BER decoding scheme in a multiprocessor environment ", Computer Communications, Vol.19, 1996.

"Implementing OSI Protocol Stack in a Multiprocessor Environment", IEICE Transactions on Communications, No.6, January1996.

"Testing Methods for SDL Systems", Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, Vol.28, No.12, P.1669-1683, 1996.

"Collaborative Indexing over Networked Information Resources by Distributied Agents", Distributed Systems Engineering Journal, P.362-374, 1994.

"A Partial ASN.1/BER Decoding Scheme on Multiprocessor Environment", Computer Communications, 1994.

"Configuration of Object in Parallel Object Oriented Computation", Computer Journal, Vol.25, P.281-292, 1992.

"Configuration Management of Object Groups", Australian Computer Journal, Vol.23, No.4, P.148-158, 1991

"Self and Selftype", Information Processing Letters, P.225-230, 1990.

"Virtual Terminal Protocol with Windowing Capability", Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, Vol.16, P.357-365, 1988.

"A New Distributed Computing Paradigm Based on Asynchronous Migration", Performance Analysis, 1988.

"UDSTP: A Transport Protocol with Windowing Capability", Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, 1986.

"Computer System Development with Standardization", Computers and Standards, P. 173 - 180, 1983.

"On Optimal Regulation Policies for Certain Multi-Reservoir Systems", Journal of Operations Research, P.551-562, 1978.

"Performance of an Automated Mixed Traffic Vehicles", Journal of High Speed Ground Transportation, P.93~106, 1978.

"Effective Factors of Ink-Bottle Type Catalyst Pores", Journal of Catalysis, Vol.17, No.1, P.71-78, 1970.

Presentations

"Future Internet for The Other Billions", Keynote Speech, CERNET Annual Conference, 2008.10.28

"인터넷 기술 : 과거,현재, 미래", 전경련 국제경영원, 서울, 2008.10.17

"Panel on Future Internet Activity in Asia", APCC, Tokyo, 2008.10.15

"System Engineering", WIDE Camp, Nagoya, 2008.9

"Future Internet for The Other Billions - Research Opportunity-Research Opportunity", Keynote Speech, SAINT 2008, Turku, July 30, 2008

"Future Internet for The Other Billions", Keynote Speech, CFI, Seoul, June 18, 2008

"Panel on Transport Protocols in Next Generation Communications", ICC Beijing, May 12, 2008

"System Engineering", KAIST, February 13, 2008
     Similar Presentations at WIDE Camp September 2008

"Internet Technology: Past, Present and Future", 고려대, December 12, 2007
     Similar Presentations at Waseda University January 2008
                                         KAIST February 2008
                                         Tsinghua University March 2008
                                         BUPT May 2008
                                         FKI, Seoul, October 2008

"Asia Pacific Perspective on NSF/NSFNET", NSFNET, The International Partnerships (Panel Discussion), November 29-30, 2007

"Asia Future Internet Forum - Draft Proposal -", AsiaFI, October 26, 2007

"History of Future Internet", IPv6 Forum, Jeju, October 12, 2007

"Internet: Past, Present and Future", 연세대, September 19, 2007

"Digital Archive 2007 (Workshop of Digital Archive on Human Civilization)", APAN/APNG Meetings, August 27-28, 2007

"Fair Share", WIDE Board Camp, August 5-7, 2007

"Fair Share", FIW 2007, July 9-10, 2007

"4K Task Force - CineGRID, Digital Cinema,... -", Jun 28, 2007

"한국인터넷 25년 - 다음 25년 -", WebAppsco, Jun 21, 2007

"Broadband Networks and Their Applications", 2007 World Internet Leader Conference, March 21, 2007

"Sixth Asia Broadband Summit - Global Update -", APRICOT2007, February 26, 2007

"Internet and Its Applications at PUST", December 27, 2006

"Terabit Networking", Advanced Network Workshop, November 15, 2006

"Digital Archive of Human Civilization", Digital Archive, November 10, 2006

"Gloriad : Next Challenge", Gloriad China Korea Meeting, September 26, 2006

"IPv6Forum Korea", 2006 Technology Workshop, September 22, 2006

"Internet History", Yust Summer Camp, August, 2006

"Tera Bit Per Second", KCIST, July 21, 2006

"APAN - 10 Years", Apan Singapore Meetings, July 18, 2006

"Internet and Its Applications at PUST", June 9, 2006

"Video Conferencing over IPv6 in YBU and YUST(pdf file)", March 2, 2006

"Korea-China Video Experiment(pdf file)", March 2, 2006

"Internet Archive Draft Proposal", Internet Archive Workshop, Feburary 17, 2006

"Online Book Project", Internet Archive Workshop, Feburary 17, 2006

"Gloriad: What to Do Now?", 2005 Gloriad-KR Workshop, December 8 , 2005

"A Brief History of the Internet in Korea", Past, Present, and Future of Research in the Information Society, November 13~15, 2005

"Internet History", CERNET Annual Conference, November 2~5, 2005

"Gloriad: Issues and Recommandations", Gloriad Meeting, Hongkong, October 30~31, 2005

"Postech CSD Seminar ", Postech, September 9, 2005

"Global Networking and Application Issues with Gloriad ", Big Gloriad Opening, September 8, 2005

"A Brief History of the Internet", IEICE, September 1, 2005

"Gigabit IPv6 Networks for Research and Education Community - Korea and Northeast Asia -", Global Summit IPv6 in Brazil, August 17-19, 2005

"IPv6-enabled Research Networks - Asia-Pacific -", Global IPv6 Summit Seoul , July 20-21, 2005

"Internet History", HPAIR-KAIST, July 20, 2005

"Institute for Information Infrastructure(초안)", 2회 인터넷거버넌스 심포지움, June 3, 2005

"IPv6-enabled Research Networks -Asia-Pacific-", Coalition Summit for IPv6, May 26, 2005

"Broadband Networks", 연변과학기술대학, April 22, 2005

"Broadband Networks", APRICOT 2005, Febraury 22, 2005

"GLORIAD and Korean Participation", KISTI, January 25, 2005

"Usages of Native and ASCII Names",IAK, June 23, 2004

"Broadband Networks",NGN Policy, April 19~21, 2004

"인터넷 히스토리 연표",서울대 언론정보학과 특강, March 16, 2004

"Internet 개발",서울대 언론정보학과 특강, March 16, 2004

"Toward Development of Human Network for eSilkroad",FIT 2004, February 27, 2004

"Promotion of Native Names in the Internet",Native Name Workshop, February 23, 2004

"Toward Next Generation Social Infrastructure",KEIO-CEO Conference, January 22, 2004

"6GN : APAN Native Gigabit IPv6 Network ",Global IPv6 Service Launch Event , January 15, 2004

"APAN-perspective",TEIN2 Information Day, January 14, 2004

"Broadband Networks", The 1st International Workshop on Networking Technologies , December 17~18, 2003

"intERLab and Research and Education Network Development", intERLab Opening Ceremony, December 15~16, 2003

"Broadbandnetworks", Asia Broadband Summit, December 7, 2003

"Advanced Networks and Digital Divide in East Asia", 2003 Int’l Symposium on Bridging the Digital Divide in East Asia, December 2~3, 2003

"KoreaLight : Initial Thought", NGI workshop, November 27~28, 2003

"Latest-Gigabit", NGI Workshop, November 27-28, 2003

"TEIN2(11.15)", GSM, November 15, 2003

"Global Research & Education Networking", Fudan University, November 1, 2003

"Internet 2 : Next Stepts", Fudan University, November 1, 2003

"Latest Gigabit/Lambda Networking -Asia and World", October 20, 2003

"Advanced Networks for Climate Information Exchange In Asia-Pacific ", APCN (APEC Climate Network),  October 7, 2003

"Internet : Next Steps",ICU 초청강연,  October 1, 2003

"Advanced Networks for Climate Information Exchange In Asia-Pacific",기상청,  September 26, 2003

"6GN : Native Gigabit IPv6 Network", IPv6 코리아 제주 심포지움,  September 18, 2003

"북한의 국가 도메인 (.kp)",국회,  September 15, 2003

"eSilk Road -perspective from research and education networks -", FIT 2003,  September 10, 2003

"State of APAN",16th APAN Meeting,  August 25, 2003

"APAN Activities",16th APAN Meeting,  August 24, 2003

"Next Generation Internetet", Net SA 2003,  July 25, 2003

"Asia-Pacific Perspective on Global Grid Activities" GGF8, June 24, 2003

"Advanced Internet-Strategy for Korean R&E Networking" June 1. 2003

"동북아 중심: 첨단망 분야 구성(안)" June 1, 2003

"Korea/Asia-Europe Networking" April 22, 2003

"TEIN 중장기 발전계획수립 Mini Workshop1, 2" KISDI    December 4, 2002

"IPv6 : Time for Major Development" IPv6 Forum July 12, 2002

"Comments on Root Name Server" ICANN Bucharest meeting June 23-28, 2002

"Global Research & Education Networking " KOREN NGIW June 12, 2002

"The Internet : Asian Perspective" Daedeok International Symposium on IT May 17, 2002

"IT leader Development" May7, 2002

"Lambda Networking for Asia Pacific research Community" Hyunhae/Genkai Project Meeting March 29, 2002

"Multilingual TLD and Internet Community" December 4, 2002

"Beginning of International Gigabit Networking in Asia" Hyunhae/Genkai Project Meeting November 27, 2001

"Broadband Internet in Korea(and Asia)" October 5, 2001

"Internet : Next steps " KRNET'2001 June 27, 2001

"KOREN/APAN - Next Steps" 미래 Forum June 22, 2001

"e-silkroad and broadband City" Asiavison 초청강연 June20, 2001

"Internet : Next Steps" 광운대 초청강연 June 14, 2001

"Asia-Pacific International Connections updates" CCIRN'2001 June 8-9, 2001

"Internet Exchanges and Routing - APAN's Perspective- INFOCOMMS Forum May, 2001

"KOREN/APAN - Next Steps" KOREN/APAN Workshop Aprile 13, 2001

"Internet : Next Steps" Softbank초청강연 March 23, 2001

"Internet : Next Steps" ICU 초청강연 March 5, 2001
"Asia-Pacific Advanced Network Consortium(APAN)" March 27-28, 2001

"Name Space & Naming in Digital Culture - Focusing in Hangul domain names-"January 26-29, 2001

"한글도메인 [.kr]" December 28, 2000

"Comments on TransEurasia Link" ETRI 초청강연. December 6.2000

"ICANN At Large와 한국에서 ICANN At Large를 어떻게 할 것인가" September 29, 2000

"Internet Inernationalization and Globalization -Focusing on Internet Names-"itsAsia, September 25-27, 2000

"Incubation Centers" September 16, 2000

"Internet Governance and India" September 16 2000

"Deployment Coordination WG" August 28, 2000

"Asia-Pacific Advanced Network Consortium (APAN)" CCIRN2000, July 22, 2000

"Seoul ICANN Workshop" July 10, 2000

"WG E Global Awareness and Outreach" DNSO,ICANN, June 26, 2000

"KAIST EECS International Cooperation Program" June 15, 2000

"Hot Topics in the Internet Scene in Asia-Pacific" N+I Tokyo, June 8, 2000.

"인터넷- Globalization of the Internet: Personal History" May 18, 2000

".kr Management -Focusing on 2LD- " April 28, 2000

"Internet Administration and Governance -Korea-" April 28, 2000

"Internet Administration and Governance -focusing on ICANN-" April 28, 2000

"Multilingual Names" February 19, 2000.

"GigaPoP" IWS2000, February 16, 2000.

"Internet : Next Steps" 한누리증권 ,January 8, 2000

"Internet Administration - Global and National-" December18, 1999

"Asia-Pacific Advanced Network Consortium" CERNET, December 18, 1999

"APTLD Principle" November 24, 1999

"Individual Members -DNSO and ICANN -" August 30, 1999

"21세기 Internet을 누가 관리하는가?" July 29, 1999

"Management of ccTLD Second Level Domains" N+I, June 3, 1999

"차세대 Internet 연구개발의 비교" 국회, May 4, 1999

"Internet Governance -Name, Address, Protocol 관련분야-" April 4, 1999

"인터넷기술의 발전 및 선진국의 개발동향" MIC, March 23, 1999

"국내 인터넷 조직동향 및 도메인 개선방향" 우리나라의 인터넷정책방향공청회, December 11, 1998

"Internet의 발전 방향" 정보산업리뷰심포지엄, December 9. 1998

"Connecting Advanced Networks in Asia-Pacific" December 3, 1998

"우리나라선도시험망 : Next Step " November 24, 1998

"Asia-Pacific Top Level Domain Name Forum(APTLD) Overview" October 14, 1998

"GigaPoP and Access Network," KRNET/APAN Workshop, July 1, 1998.

"Internet : Next Steps," '98 한일멀티미디어 기술 심포지움, June 24, 1998.

"Asia-Pacific Advanced Network," Association of Pacific Rim Universities, June 23, 1998.

"21C 교육에서의 인터넷 활용전망," 21C 인터넷교육의 전망과 교단 선진화장비의 효과적 활용방향, June 13, 1998.

"Global High Performance Networks," N+I Tokyo'98, June 5, 1998.

"Asia-Pacific Advanced Network Consortium," Net'98, May 10, 1998.

"Home Page for All", 1998. 4. 30

"Global High Performance Research Network," WWCA, March 4, 1998.

"Internet:Next Steps - Perspective from Research Networking -," KRNET'97 Keynote Speech, July 3, 1997.

"Internet과 Cyber Space," April, 1997.

"Information Infrastructure-Updates," April, 1997.

"Asia-Pacific Advanced Network Consortium-update," April 1, 1997.

"Internet: Next Steps," "올해의 과학자상"수상기념강연, March 17, 1997.

"Asia-Pacific Advanced Network Consortium", 1997. 1. 27
2007-07-27
"Neccessity of Advanced Network covering Asia Pacific Area," Bits, December 1996(in Japanese).
"Internet," March 7, 1997.

"Internet Exposition in Asia-Pacific," (PowerPoint file, HTML file) December 6, 1996.

"Asia-Pacific Advanced Network Consortium," September 1, 1996.

"Hypermedia Conference Proceedings," COMSAC'96,Seoul,August 1996.(presentation material)

"CS540 Network Architecture(Spring 1996) Report-MBone Multicasting", SAL-TM-71, July 1996.

"Advanced Networking for Asia Pacific," NetWorld+Interop'96, Tokyo, July 1996.

"Engineering Hypermedia Proceedings", CAIR-TR-96-59,KAIST,1996.

"21세기 정보기술 개발을 위한 산학연 협력체계", 컴퓨터분과위 '96워크샵, 1996.5.

"Asia-Pacific Information Highway-Why not gigabits?", APEC Symposium for Realizing the Information Society in the Field of R&D Activities, Tsukuba, Japan, March 1996.

"Multicasting in the Internet", International Workshop on New Video Media Technology, Seoul, March 1996.
"1996 Internet 세계 박람회-한국참가현황", HCI'96 학술대회, 부산, 1996.2.

"SDN 확장과 분산처리 시스템에 관한 연구", 1986. 2. 7

"National and Regional Computer Networks for Academic and Research Communities in the Pacific Region.", Pacific Computer Communications Symposium(PCCS), 1-25 Oct, 1985, Seoul, Korea
"Overview on Pacific Region and SDN in Korea ", 1985. 10. 24

"Research Computer Networks in Pacific and Asia", 1985. 7. 22

"System Development Network (SDN)", 1983. 10. 20

"System Analysis of A "Information" Systems Engineer", KIET 1982. 2. 24

Others

Newpaper Articles

[장윤옥의 IT Talk] 전길남 KAIST 교수 (디지털 타임스 2007.6.29)

Korea: An Emerging IPv6 Superpower (6Sense Newletter 2005.9)

인터넷 역사를 돌아본다 (<월간>네트워커 2005.1.3)

20년 열정이 꽃피운 인터넷 강국 (월간잡지 PC 사랑 2005.4)

2003 World Technology Award 수상 (KAIST News in KAIST WebPage 2003.7.2)

인터넷 그랑프리 진흥대상 수상 (KAIST신문 2003.6.4)

KRnet 공로상 수상 (전자신문 2002.7.26)

기업가 변신한 KAIST 전길남 교수 (조선일보 2000.11.7)

인터넷 국가를 고민하는 인터넷 대부 전길남 교수 (IT 조선 2000.5.29)

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